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Ariella Azoulay
Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Writing that references this work:
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Mary Ellen Mark: The Ethics of Seeing
Mary Ellen Mark built her documentary practice through encounters that were embedded, revisited or carefully staged. Her subjects look back, pose, speak and change, but intimacy does not erase the…
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality taught me useful disciplines: verify, do not stage and do not let a caption outrun the evidence. It also taught me to mistake professional restraint for the absence of…
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A Postmodern Defense of Street Photography Against Susan Sontag’s Moralism
Sontag diagnosed postmodern image culture, then judged it with a modernist moral vocabulary. A committed postmodernist defends street photography through situated responsibility, not innocence.
